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Fatal crash between truck and cars near Campbelltown in Sydney's south west

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Tue 3 Dec 2013, 6:44 PM AEDT

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A man was killed when a truck collided with cars at Campbelltown.

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A man has died and fourteen people have been injured in a crash involving a truck and five cars on the Hume Highway near Campbelltown in Sydney's south west.

The crash happened just after 2:00pm (AEDT) this afternoon near the Narellan Road Interchange.

Sixteen people have been treated by paramedics mostly for lower limb injuries.

Four people trapped in their cars were released by emergency workers at the crash site near the Narellan interchange.

The crash closed the Hume Highway but northbound lanes have now been re-opened.

Inspector John Brotherhood from the NSW Ambulance Service says the crash presented a dramatic scene.

"There were 15 patients all up, we transported 14 and unfortunately the (truck) driver has passed away," he said.

"A number of those (taken to hospital) were children, then about five women and the rest were males that we transported to various hospitals including Liverpool and Campbelltown, and we sent one patient in a helicopter to Westmead."